notes towards the longer form (downstream from utopia)

ok people. it looks like the facebook 'notes' blogging tool has finally popped. forward to the longer form. 

horsemouth does some preparatory listening to robert lawson's downstream from utopia. horsemouth writes and edits this while it plays.

dulcimers, zithers, hammered dulcimers? cimbaloms? khims? santurs? yang quins. all strings are struck if they are not plucked or bowed or driven by the wind. but not all strings are struck with hammers, sticks. a struck chordophone in the  Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification (first published in the zeitschrift für ethnologie in 1914).  

cat among the strings isn't that like cat among the pigeons? meaning to cause trouble.  a short koto-like introduction. (perhaps koto like because of sound of the initial hit) then as diamond harvest revisited and downstream from utopia. a dog barks. a tap runs. 

ottakar dance no.2 there was a prince ottakar who founded ceske budjovice. a beer dance? a spirited waltz tarrying with forward propulsion (like mbira music). but dulcimers take us up into a kind of frictionless perfection where mbiras attach our feet firmly to the earth (even as we lift them up to dance). blossom supper/evening chimes 

mistaken flower ah the joys of delay and yankie doodle went to town variations. outside the dog is barking like it was earlier (but this is a fanfare maybe a jota) but then the change, the rattle, bent notes.

western rivers  

for the ghost of michael o'shea and his mo chara (nearly burnt in a beach bonfire).  

the album is over. horsemouth will return to it again. 

the ghoul like the reptile and plague of zombies another post colonial hammer (ok ok it's tyburn not hammer) horror (bad things brought back from abroad like vegetarian curry and a knowledge of foreign languages) plus an appearance of toccata and fugue in D minor, a young john hurt, and isn't that greg from survivors?